Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting in New York. This session is about core benefit plans from a state and from a national level. Core benefit plan is used interchangeably in this session with standard benefit plan, basic benefit plan, and minimum benefit plan. Topics included: 1. A summary of the legislative process. 2. A summary of options available within the national health-care debate, with a primary focus on the Clinton proposal. 3. The role of core benefit-plans in health-care reform.

Description: Panelists present the positions being staked out by the political parties, the likelihood of passage of any of the proposed legislation, and the potential impacts on the health care market of the various proposals. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 131PD.

Description: This session is about rationing health care. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4A.

Description: Discusses components of health-care inflation and their impact on health-insurance products. These components include: utilization trends, consumer price index [CPI] changes, regional variation. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session on physician reimbursements focused on arrangements that might be offered by managed care companies, such as HMOs. It included an overview of key definitions, concepts, and incentive compensation arrangements.

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting addresses possible strategies to identify and control factors causing medical inflation.

Description: This session is about discrimination issues, dealing with HMOs, effect of cost containment provisions, current cost trend levels, recent trends in benefit design and other current issues. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1988 Vol. 14, No. 4B.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. In this session the panelists provided five different perspectives of small-group health insurance reform. Perspectives included: 1. Legislative issues perspective. 2. A small group insurance company perspective. 3. The employer perspective. 4. The reinsurance perspective. 5. The compliance perspective.

Description: This 1992 panel discussion is about regulations proposed or adopted by the NAIC, the Health Insurance Association of America [HIAA], and states to regulate small group underwriting and rate guidelines. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: Panelists discuss the implications of 9 / 11 , such as disaster planning for business operations, geographic concentrations of risk, terrorism clauses, carrier response, legislative changes that may help carriers limit risk, accidental death-only programs, effects on health and disability costs, changes in practices and changes in claim incurrence and payments patterns. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 128